Baghdad, Nov. 22 – The governor’s office in the southern Iraqi province of Basra accused Iran of being behind an attempted assassination of the current governor, a Baghdad daily reported on Monday. The daily al-Watan wrote that in a statement, the governorate said, “There was cooperation between Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security [MOIS] and certain Iraqis inside this city to assassinate the current provincial governor of Basra Mohammad Mesbah al-Waeli”. The statement accused a prominent member of the Basra city council, a member of the Iraqi national assembly, and the secretary general of the pro-Iran Tharollah organisation, all of...